Recent content by josh3dmaker

Help! I have Mac OS X 10.3 installed on an external harddrive. When I tried to change the screen resolution my monitor went blank. If I start up from my internal harddrive I can change my monitor's resolution without trouble, so I know it is not a hardware problem. Unfortunately I don't...

Thanks to everyone who has posted so far. Well, I want to be able to use quartz extreme and my Rage card is below the requirements for doing so. Second, I want to speed up LightWave, after all I spent a lot of money to get it. Third, video editing and compression can be very slow on my...

I have been asking around for information about graphics cards but so far have not been able to find much. I have a dual 500Mhz desktop with an ATI Rage Pro graphics card, and was thinking of upgrading my graphics card. Unfortunately, I don't know which card to buy; I don't even know if...

OK, after a ~40 mb download, I finally install the new X11 beta from www.apple.com. However, I can't find any documentation for newbies and can't get it to do anything. First I open up the little X11 app in my Application folder and a xterm window loads up. After staring at it for a while i...

I have a dual 500 mhz power Mac that is runing Mac OS X 10.2 and was thinking about installing linux for fun. I was thinking of installing either Mandrake PPC or Yellow Dog linux, but I don't know which one to choose. Does anyone have any tips as to which one I should install? Are there...

Thanks for the help guys!

OK, I have a dual 500 mhz G4 tower with 512megs of RAM. Lately I noticed that my computer has been running more slowly than usual, and so I have been trying to find out what the cause might be. While looking at the amount of RAM my computer was using with the shareware program "memory...

Thanks for the help guys... It looks like I still have a lot to learn before I can program anything usefull. Can anyone recommend a good "how to" book to get me started?

Wow... I cant find anything that looks like what I learned when working with EzWindows. It looks like I have a sharp learning curve ahead.

OK, I have had a few courses on C++ (the last on a windoze machine, ewww) and I would love to make some applications on my Mac. I have played around with the developer tools, but most of the information I have found online is about objective-c, whch I do not know. Is there a way to...